with prosecutors, now spend a maximum of 20 years in prison. >> legal sources say despite the passionate rhetoric, many government lawyers felt that life sentence was too harsh given what lynn actually did. >> that is tom brokaw and pete williams on "nightly news" from july of 2002, talking about john walk walker lindh after being captured. and he will be released tomorrow. pete williams who you saw in that clip has covered this story from the beginning. pete, talk to us about why lindh is being released and maybe put into context what it was like when this arrest happened. >> he is being released now because he was sentenced to 20 years, but in the federal system there is no parole, but there is time off for in either sense good be may have. so doing the calculation, it came out to 17 years. and it seemed obvious when he